The Texas Supreme Court has posted its clerkship brochure. As the brochure quite rightly notes, the experience for its law clerks is unique:

Unlike most appellate courts, the Texas Supreme Court has discretionary review only of civil cases and almost exclusively among appellate courts permits law clerks to sit in conference for its deliberations. (( Those little words matter. The Court’s civil jurisdiction means that you don’t see death-penalty appeals and, except for the occasional juvenile-justice case, won’t see criminal issues. Discretionary review means, not just that the Court can focus on interesting issues, but that you can start to get a feel for what makes an issue interesting enough to hear. ))

The brochure has the needed details. The Justices are accepting applications now and, according to the brochure, interviews “will generally be scheduled no earlier than mid-September 2011.”